Icicles

This is unusual, icicles hanging from the drain pipe.  Not sure what causes this.  Maybe a lot of snow, and yet temperatures which go from freezing, to melting.  I am really good about keeping the gutters and drainpipes clean, but I think they have been overwhelmed by the snow.  On the news the other night they said, get this, that we have had 51 inches of snow this winter!  Wow.  I had no idea we have had this much.  I love that I could get the shadows of the icicles and the icicles themselves together in the same picture.  Makes it more interesting.

Same Patio, 24 Hours Later...

So this is almost exactly the same scene, same framing, as yesterday's photograph.  The difference is 24 hours, and a new snowstorm that moved in.  It was snowing this morning when I woke, and I took the photograph right away.  I was stunned how much more snow had fallen overnight.  It was supposed to be something like 4 to 6 inches.  The news report tonight said that Oyster Bay got more than 14 inches.  That's how much snow was here.  The loan of the kind neighbor's snow blower saved my life again!

"Get any snow?" "Not that I recall, offhand."

I woke up this morning knowing that yet another snowstorm is coming.  They are saying 4 to 8 inches of snow, with perhaps some rain mixed in for a while.  "This is getting tedious," I am thinking.  Then I looked out the bedroom window and saw the patio, and there was a record of the last couple of snowfalls, frozen in time.  Usually there is a warming period and the snow melts, but not this year.  Lets see how this looks in a day or so. 

Empty Windows

I like this photograph for a couple of reasons.  I don't think I have photographed this building from this angle before, I think.  Originally there were white pieces of fabric in all the windows, but then they went through and cut the steel window frames out of the windows, and I think the wind has blowing the fabric in random ways, which, of course, adds to the forlorn feeling.  The other reason I like the photograph, is the sense of more of the surroundings at the left hand side of the frame.  I love the sense of brilliant light and the old power poles.  That leaning pole, by the way, has been leaning the same way for years!

The Joy of Blue Sky!

With all the gray clouds around here lately, I found that when the sun came out, and we had blue skies and sunshine overhead, I found my spirits were lifted!  There is something about seeing fresh snow against the blue sky.  I can't explain it, but I felt wonderful!  So this is not a great photograph - it is more of a "fragment" of a photograph - something interesting, but not complete in and of itself.  I promise to work harder in the future.

Forlorn...

I looked up the word "forlorn" to make sure I was using the correct term for how I felt about how this building looks these days.  Here is the definition: "pitifully sad and abandoned or lonely."  That's how this building feels for me now.  First they blocked off the windows while they did asbestos removal, and now that it's done, they are cutting out the window frames.  They don't make buildings like this anymore- it was built about 1915, and is architecturally interesting.  It is slowly being demolished, and of course I will record that.  That's what I do sometimes - I try to save history.

Have a Seat...

I went down to the power plant so photograph some changes in the building, as part of the demolition process.  I parked my car and was walking toward the plant, when I saw this chair, in the middle of nowhere.  I have no idea why this chair is there.  There is a bus stop across the street, so maybe this is for the bus going in the opposite direction.  Who knows.  I guess that's the fun of what I do sometimes - I find stuff, and then have no idea what it is all about.  Some help I am!